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Andrew and Nicola could be forgiven for thinking this stuff is no one else’s business, but unfortunately, it is other peoples’ business. Big business.
Commentators are projecting a Coalition majority. They may be right. But there are five reasons to keep the champagne corked and the popcorn within...
A regulator can only regulate models it can reach, and rules can only be enforced if companies have people, assets, and operations based onshore.
A flat 40 per cent discount on non-property assets is far better for investment, risk-taking and productivity than indexation plus the Innovative...
Reducing the university sector’s already eroded autonomy would turn them into government agencies – at the political whim of ministers and their...
The Nvidia CEO’s fall from grace seems so shocking partly because the honey-trap story feels so depressingly low-tech.
The Nvidia boss has been something of a “Trump-whisperer” on US export controls, advocating to sell chips to China to keep it hooked on the US...
I believe young Australians will reject these taxes once they understand what they mean for their ability to invest, build businesses and get ahead.
With victory seemingly in sight, Wilson could be forgiven for believing a small-target strategy is enough to carry the Coalition across the line.
To limit the inflationary and interest rate impact, governments should be cutting unproductive spending to make space for the private sector’s AI...
It’s an extraordinary chain of events at non-bank lender Humm and raises questions about whether the chaotic board can continue to function at all.
The US president’s acceptance of last week’s midterms drubbing was a mirage. His elevation of Stephen Miller is the reshuffle version of a middle...
It’s the consequence of Labor’s fiscal and public policy mismanagement, enabled by an accommodating central bank. And blaming oil prices is just a...
All I can say is that if what Usman Khawaja alleges turns out to be true, then I was also lied to, writes Simon Longstaff.
As the cracks in the official version widen, it’s difficult to see how Cricket Australia can keep playing a straight bat to growing calls for an...
It is most at home in the institutions that shape what we consider credible and acceptable: universities, media, arts organisations and human rights...
Decarbonisation is a failure. The alternative is adaptation, which directly counters impacts of global warming by making humans’ physical...
Many funds don’t provide sufficient information to investors about the underlying loan investments – which is good practice 101 – and...
If there’s an American politics analog to the Prime Minister’s premature boast about taming inflation, it’s President George W. Bush 2003...
Labor should revive Paul Keating’s 1980s proposal to stop people sitting on assets until they are bequeathed to their children tax-free.
The way the giant project has unfolded is an ever-expanding stain on Australia’s record to deliver on its ambitions.
I would have said that overseeing a robot team would be a cakewalk. But the more I have learnt about running a team of agents, the more I realise I...
The failure by Snowy Hydro and the federal government to conduct proper due diligence symbolises Australia’s increasingly chequered infrastructure...
This is potentially a monumental opportunity, should politicians and voters decide that we want large-scale data centres on our shores, with the right...
That is precisely why Democrats should resist reading Tuesday’s result as a major electoral realignment or even repudiation of Donald Trump.
It won’t win Chris Bowen standing ovations at COP, but he is better off tempering his climate crusade and being realistic about the energy...
The prime minister’s principle that server facilities should fund their own electricity supply is sound, but his focus on one source is misguided.
Measures taken by the group, which has form in downturns, suggest new boss Greg Ward may want optionality should a large opportunity present itself.
Will voters turn away from the government and One Nation in search for economic stability, as they are doing in Victoria?
Time will tell whether One Nation’s grievance-based appeal remains an existential threat to the Liberal and National parties.
The former prime minister sold centre-right reform as common sense. The National-led coalition government under Christopher Luxon has been far less...
A new Israeli leader will have an easier time winning friends in the American political scene.
The central bank’s executive arguably had little choice, given what must have been deep fears that the board would override its recommendation to...
While there’s no cause for alarm yet, credit quality will get worse from here. But it’s fortuitous that APRA conducted a sweeping review of...
The Labor government should take stock as it confronts a declining primary vote, higher inflation and community backlash to AI data centres.
The post-pandemic price breakout presents a big challenge to keeping the faith in Australia’s three-decade-old monetary policy framework put in...
It is critical that Australia doesn’t allow the debate about reining in spending to come at the expense of efforts to enable sustainably faster...
Lidija Ivanovski says Victorian frustrations do not give Jess Wilson a free pass to take the reins, while Terry Barnes says the Coalition is lengths...
The midterms elections signalled a dramatic sea change in American politics. What does that mean now for the United States – and the world?
The country’s currency has collapsed into unchartered territory, and while holidays to Bali are getting cheaper, the bigger picture is not good for...
The Republicans’ defeat this year most closely resembles the landslide defeat for the party in 2006 under leader George W. Bush.
Too much easy money at the federal level leads to wasteful spending. Too little money at the state level leads to excessive reliance on inefficient...
In the aftermath of the Republican rout in the US midterm elections, it’s Labor that should be most concerned.
There was always a risk that encouraging board members to be candid in their views would send mixed messages
In multiple midterm races, the president’s heavy-handed input has backfired, as the United States seems finally to have fallen out of his spell.
The US president has been exposed as someone who is unfamiliar with the plight of ordinary citizens, and this has cost the Republican Party dearly.
There is a credible argument that, while the occasional setback on Wall Street is inevitable, what we are seeing in the AI and tech space is a secular...
The Albanese government needs a circuit breaker, but it can’t change course from its broken economic model because to do so would be an admission of...
If the Coalition truly intends to fix the mess, it’s incumbent on them to come clean with the people of Victoria as to how they’re going to do it.
The fallout will ripple through the economy as players shut stores, are picked off by opportunistic buyers or decide it’s too difficult to keep...